A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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Date of latest update: 2025-11-01

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Danube:Future is a joint contribution of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC) and the Alps-Adriatic Rectors’ Conference (AARC), thus tapping the largest pool of institutionalized knowledge in the Danube River Basin. Based on this network, interdisciplinary research and education in the DRB will be undertaken. Any path towards a sustainable future of the region has to account for the solution of pressing socio-ecological issues. Project activities Danube:Future is a multi-year program (2013-2020). It consists of three modules: (a) core, (b) capacity building and (c) sustainability related research with a long-term socio-ecological component. The Core will create the DRB-Sustainability Knowledge Base as main output, including the DF WIKI. Danube:Future is a unique combination of regional, national and supra-national initiatives in interdisciplinary sustainability research with training and capacity building. It contributes to the sustainable development of the Danube River Basin (DRB) with a particular focus on the contribution of humanities. Danube:Future was born as a Flagship Project of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). While Danube:Future is a contribution to Priority Area 7, “To develop the knowledge society:research, education and ICT”, it has strong links to other Pillars and Priority Areas.Results will be useful for the restoration and maintenance of the quality of waters, for the management of environmental risks and for the preservation of biodiversity, landscapes and the quality of air and soils. Danube:Future is an investment on people and skills, with a particular contribution to culture and tourism. The main focus areas for intervention in the DRB as identified by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) are well covered by Danube:Future. The long-term and interdisciplinary perspective will support an efficient protection of water resources as well as the reduction of eutrophication and toxic chemical releases by revealing legacies of past activities. Together with flood risk mitigation this will contribute to creating healthy and sustainable river systems

Achievements (EN): Project achievements are available on the project website: http://www.danubefuture.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The project will achieve several goals: It will have a lasting effect on research and teaching in the humanities in the region, bringing young scholars to the forefront of international research and hence developing the strengths of higher education in the region in internationally competitive contexts. EUSDR encompasses and builds on the concept of smart specialization strategies for regions. Danube:Future will be of particular importance for regions who build their strategy in the core of the sustainability economy (“green jobs”) as their specialization. But, in fact, all strategies need to take a long-term perspective into view in order to be smart, and therefore, projects of smart specialization, whatever their thematic focus, will all at least have some benefit from engaging with the sustainability questions in the DRB. Comparisons with other river basins also developed in the core project will allow researchers to identify specific and global challenges for a sustainability transition and apply them to the regional context. Danube:Future will create living heritage by making the environmental and cultural heritage of the DRB visible and bringing it into the context of sustainable development. It will lead to a series of in-depth analyses of the long-term evolution of the DRB and its implications for sustainable development.

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Innovation capacity and awareness-raising Scientific cooperation Waterways, lakes and rivers

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Lead Partner: Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

Address: Klagenfurt, Austria

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Univerzitet Novi Sad, Fakultet Tehničkih Nauka

Name: Univerzitet Novi Sad, Fakultet Tehničkih Nauka

Address: Novi Sad, Serbia

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Università degli Studi di Trieste

Name: Università degli Studi di Trieste

Address: Trieste, Italy

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Universitӓt für Bodenkultur, Wien

Name: Universitӓt für Bodenkultur, Wien

Address: Vienna, Austria

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University of Ruse

Name: University of Ruse

Address: Ruse, Bulgaria

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University of Novi Sad

A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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University of Trieste

A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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University of Ruse

A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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Project name (EN): A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

Project acronym: Danube:Future

Project start date: 2013-01-10

Project end date: 2020-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 13 175 000.00

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2021-04-07

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A sustainable future for the Danube River Basin as a challenge for the interdisciplinary humanities

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